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hi Just installed astping in Nagios (former netsaint), and it works fine - for some time. After several hours, the Asterisk manager module just stopped responding, and I had to restart to make it work Any idea what might cause this? Sorry - I don't have the log now. Is it possible to have asterisk log console output somewhere? roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester ProntoTV AS -

...output from 'ps axfv' before and after the DoS, showing asterisk having allocated ~2GB RAM. roy #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $i = 0; while (1) { $i++; system("astping pbx"); if ($? != 0) { printf("asterisk crashed after %d astpings\n", $i); exit; } } ------ ps axfv before DoS 14917 ? S 0:00 60 254 2825 1544 0.6 SCREEN 14918 pts/3 S 0:00 302 505 2114 1008 0.3 \_ /bin/bash 15517 pts/3 S 0:02 8023 404 91615 4800 1.8 \_ asterisk -vvvcg 6062...

I have spent some time digging through the archives for comments concerning Asterisk and monitoring systems, and I have found few results. check_asterisk.pl.gz (http://www.dynx.net/ASTERISK/misc-progs/) which gives an error on download, and has no further Google references astping.tar (http://www.dynx.net/ASTERISK/misc-progs/ and also in the mailing list archives) supposedly sends a query to